Lourdes Carlé And Facundo Diaz They obtained quotas for Argentina in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by reaching the individual final of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.

Carlé beat the Canadian Rebecca Marino by 6-1 and 6-4 to reach the final of the tournament without having given up a single set so far. Of the eight rounds he played, only two did he concede more than four games to his rivals.

Lourdes Carlé’s rival in the final for the gold medal will be Laura Pigossi, with whom he sometimes shared a doubles partner. The Brazilian returns from Argentina Julia Riera in three sets (4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5)). At stake, succeed Nadia Podoroska in the Pan American Games record.

For his part, Facundo Díaz needed three sets to beat the Brazilian. Gustavo Heide (4-6, 6-4, 7-6(8)) and will face one of the big favorites for the final, the Chilean Thomas Barriossilver medalist in Lima 2019.

“I came to this tournament thinking about the final. Little by little it happened, little by little I started to feel better,” Facundo Díaz told Olympics.com after the victory. “It’ll be a nice challenge, so I’ll be done tomorrow.”

Tennis quotas for the 2023 Pan American Games are provisional. These will only be confirmed by the International Federation (ITF) on June 10, 2024, with the publication of the first individual ranking after Roland-Garros.

To confirm this quota, Lourdes Carlé will have to remain among the first 400 in the women’s individual ranking, and Argentina cannot have reached the maximum of four quotas per country and gender for individual tournaments.

Although tennis quotas are nominal, National Olympic Committees have exclusive authority over the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games. The participation of athletes in Paris 2024 will therefore depend on the selection of their NOC to represent their delegation at the next Olympic Games.